If you travel away from campus for personal reasons, please implement good public health measures. Upon your return, you will be asked to complete a brief form to document your travel history and to assess whether additional screening or evaluation may be necessary. If you travel to and return from an area under restriction, you will not only need to complete this form but also notify your supervisor, and you may be required to self-isolate for 14 days.

Social Distancing

To prevent and slow the spread of coronavirus, UTHealthRGV recommends that you take these steps to monitor your health and to practice social distancing:

Take your temperature with a thermometer two times a day and monitor for fever. Also watch for cough or trouble breathing.

Stay home and avoid contact with others.

Do not go to work or school for this 14-day period.

Discuss options to continue working or studying at home with your supervisor or faculty member.

Return to Student Health or Employee Health at the conclusion of 14 days for clearance to return to normal duties.

Extended Clinic Hours

To facilitate access to medical care, Student Health sites in both Edinburg and Brownsville are now open on Saturday and Sunday from 8:00 AM to Noon. Employees may visit our UT Health RGV site on Jackson Road in Edinburg from 8:00 AM to Noon on weekends.

Controlling the rapid spread of Coronavirus is everyone’s responsibility. UTHealthRGV certainly understands that this may require adjustments in customary cultural practices such as embracing as a greeting and shaking hands. To control Coronavirus, let’s start a new practice and share V’s up!

Together, and with everyone’s support, we will get through this current public health emergency.

Visit utrgv.edu/coronavirus to stay updated with the latest information regarding coronavirus and what the is doing to mitigate the outbreak’s impact to our campus community.

Source: Message was sent via email from the Office of the Executive Vice President for Health Affairs on March 13, 2020.